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Death of a Webmaster

He couldn't boost his site statistics to save his life

I, Reporter

My name is Brian: I carry a typewriter.

The Taking of Pelham 4-5-6

Before this train reaches the next station, 17 passengers will be furiously demanding a refund

Howard Stern versus Garrison Keillor

The Culture War Comes to Lake Wobegon

Loosing the Fateful Lightning

Brian's power-generating scheme takes the scientific community by storm

Drag Me to New Jersey

Brian has a great job, a great girlfriend, and a bright future. But in three days, he's going to New Jersey

LOL for LHC

or, How You Can Profit from the Coming Black Hole, with Fermilab Funnyman Adam Neutrino

Odd or Even?

An exciting game of strategy and chance (well, of chance, anyway)

Restaurant Rankings Inside the Virginia Beltway

Top 20 restaurants, plus basic info on Northern Virginia restaurants located inside the Beltway

Drill Here, Drill Now!

Candidate's dental plan has teeth

Introducing Quass Lite

The same Quass.com humor, now in a daily format of quick-reading comic blurbs!

Jellyfish Manor

The real-life adventures of an everyday family of stinging nettles, struggling to keep their heads above water

Steve Harvey and Me

Webmaster Takes the Attorney General's Challenge at 20,000 Feet

The Q-Riosity Shop @ Quass.com

Gifts designed by Brian Quass

Antiques Roadshow in the year 2709

What would you say if I were to tell you that this parody is worth...

What's It All About, Alfie?

Just read this site intro to find out

NRA: J'Accuse!

Thoughts on the 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings

Fork River Anthology

All are laughing, laughing on the hill

Duplicity, Take Two

Amorous agents get fleeced in corporate hair-growing scheme

The Grapes of Wraith

A parody of The Haunting in Connecticut

Knowing Nicolas Cage (I expected a better movie)

A parody of the sci-fi movie 'Knowing'

To Tell the Truth

Will the real Webmaster please stand up?

This is Your Problematic Life

Finally, a reminiscing game show for the rest of us what haven't got perfect lives!

Take My Father -- Please!

Safety Expert Risks Alienating Daughter

Pacifying Thrasymachus

After demolishing his adversary's cynical argument about Justice, Socrates goes 2 for 2 on the night by disproving his opponent's equally wrongheaded views about Pacifism

What's the Big Idea

Save time, money, and the planet

Nice Work If You Can Get It

Job opening for Olympic Committee Member

Thoroughly Mortified Millie

Awww! Embarrassed

Paranoia: They're Out to Get Me (or rather they WERE)

blowing the lid off of the world's secret attempt to bring me down, one frustrating setback at a time

The Q Word

12 online newbies compete for the distinguished title of Webmaster under the hypercritical tutelage of veteran site-publisher Brian Quass

Zee Last Restaurant Standing

Chef Raymond Le Bland puts the accent on food quality in, how you zay, his new TV show?

Hold One Press Conference and Call Me in the Morning

Webmaster introduces online pain sufferers to his new Press Conference Therapy

Hip Hop in Ancient Athens

Newly Discovered Platonic Dialogue!

Quantum of Silliness

007 kicks bad guy butt in Haiti, thereby foiling the no doubt evil though never adequately explained plans of a Bolivian dictator

Top 10 Horror Movies

Top 10 American Horror Movies as Ranked by Veteran Goosebump Victim Brian Quass of Quass.com

Boot Camp for Rappers

Drill Sergeant Brian Puts Hip Hop Heroes through their Paces for Lousy Lyrics

Seating Roland Burris

Inaugural Eve flipflop sacrifices principle in the name of unity

Buried Alive

A horror story based on true events

Let's Play Jeoparody!

but this time let's play it in such a way as to lodge a subtle protest against the misdeeds of corporate America

The Big Slip-Up

Genetics experiment brings Philip Marlowe back to life (or sort of -- you see, there was a mixup in the lab...)

The Day the Brains Stood Still

Clueless government resorts to mass kidnapping to save world from alien menace

Frosty, the Environmentally Conscious Snowman

Our perennial winter friend denounces mountaintop mining in a globally heartwarming stand-up routine at the Reindeer Lounge on Cedar Street

Color Me Human

Online sermon calling for an end to the self-imposed apartheid in American churches

The Shadow over Innsmouth

The REAL story, as told by the great great grandson of Zadok Allen

Do No Evil, Except Maybe in China

stand-up comic speaks truth to power in Mountain View

Judge Joe White

Real People, in a Real Courtroom, with Real Weak Cases: This is Judge Joe White:

The Comedy of Romeo and Juliet

In which the gramatically challenged Romeo FINALLY learns the true meaning of the word 'wherefore'

The Disturbing Truth about Thanksgiving Bees in Harrisonburg, Virginia

Noisy Niece Pacified in Backyard Sting Operation

Masque of the Orange Death

Pulp fiction by Egghead Allan Poe

Happy Birthday, Socrates!

You're not getting older, you're getting more philosophical!

The Telltale Nose

by Egghead Allan Poe

Ouch!

A guru grapples with the philosophical implications of Tolstoy's theory of art

The Lizards' Lair

As-broadcast transcript from the first-ever reality tv show

Fall of the Summer Cottage of Usher

Introducing the Lady Madeline's little-known identical twin sister, Yasha

Thar She Blew!

How two unprepossessing pirates conquered the Chesapeake Bay in a mere catboat, with nothing to eat for hours on end except for one small turkey and cheese sandwich each from 7-11, and nothing to drink but a mere 5 or 6 liters of raspberry tea and black-cherry flavored soda water, with nothing to laugh at but one talking parrot, albeit the bird in question had a relatively impressive vocabulary, perhaps consisting of as many as 500 words or more

Trashing Wall-E

The new head of the Disney Corporation takes Spielberg to task for his latest 'kids' film

Remedial Patriotism 101, aka Why Wright is Wrong

With corollary reflections on the sexist machinations of an ungrateful son

Sins of the Webmaster

Proving once again that God can forgive everything in cyberspace -- with the possible exception of pop-up menus, excessive reliance on PDF files, and flash attachments whose massive drain on system resources causes visitor browsers to freeze, necessitating a time-consuming and potentially data-compromising reboot

Gutter Bawl

Proving that this is one webmaster that will not go gently into any supposititious good night

Hamlet

Now in convenient parody form

Who Wants to Be an Intelligent Life Form?

Neil Headstrong discovers life on Mars... but is it intelligent life?

Loonies in the Boonies

STOP! Before you buy that log cabin in the country, read this review of the 2008 horror film The Strangers

Ask Not for Whom the Banana Peels: It Peels for Thee

Every year, thousands of clumsy Americans slip and fall

Curse of the Cajun Crawfish

It came from the swamp and had big gnarly pincers, notwithstanding its cynical impersonation of a gentleman caller

The Dog Days of Summer 1998

When Men were Men, Dogs were Dogs, and future webmasters were, for the most part, largely unmotivated lay-abouts in need of a life lesson or two

Remedial Pheromones 101

These are NOT your grandmother's pheromones

Falling for Frank Lloyd Wright

If you're living in his glass house, don't throw parties!

Living with the Muck Tribe

Learn the shocking truth about 'The People of the Corn Husk', the infamous Muck Tribe, complete with indigenous nudity and scantily clad western hunks!,coming up next on BORNEO TO BE WILD

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Wright

Look who's coming to a fund-raising dinner!

All Aboard the Platonic Express!

Pardon me, boy, is that the Post-Socratic choo-choo?

Let Us Now Praise Fainted Men

The WEBMASTER of the United States of America answers questions about his recent

The $2,000 Box

A spooky campfire story about Verizon's 'gotcha' return policy on air cards

SHUTTER Clicks

with fast-paced action and suspense

The Moral Tortures of the Game of Golf

The sand traps of our minds

Down with the Google Search Monopoly

Cheer up, webmasters, 'divest' is yet to come!

Harnessing Hurricanes

Well, blow me down! It's another

Food for Thought

The following stand-up comedy routine contains 0gm. Trans-Fat!

Is There Love on Mars?

Two top-notch astronauts set out on a secret mission to find out

Cold Feet

Webmaster breaks the ice with some reservations about cryopreservation

Green Entertainment Television

Making Color Consciousness Respectable Since 1980

Jeepers Creepers, Where did Jessica Alba Get Those Peepers

Successful transplant, my eye!

Dawn of the Embarrassed Dead

A Youngish-Looking Guru bemoans our modern hang-ups about growing old

My Polar Valentine

Father O'Really's Comments about Global Warming Meet with a Cold Reception

The Cloverfield Coward

Who is he whose grief bears such an emphasis?

Mother, May I?

Recognizing the inherent bias in parentally promulgated paradigms

I Take Thee, Babs

Going to the chapel and we're gonna get merry

You Don't Say?

On excessive verbal minimalism in modern screenplay dialogue

Little Antelope Diary

The Herbivore Network's answer to BBC's Big Cat Diary, live from the Messy Mary Game Reserve on the Serengeti Plains

Footnotes for the Rest of Us

Doctor Grammar shows us how we, too, can document our writing like an expert

Happy New Year from Emperor Augustus

Be sure to start writing MMVIII on all of your Ancient Roman checks!

Three Cheers for Ebenezer Scrooge

Ex-Usurer turns over new leaf as Do-Gooder Party Animal

Gloria in Excessive Claptrap

Season's Greetings from Our Lady of the Disgruntled Secularist

Plato for Blithering Idiots: The Phaedrus

The 21st-century Phaedrus, a modern take on the Platonic Dialgoue about Love

Little Boy Blue Has Blown his Top

and he does not know where to find it!

Most Haunted Britain for Dummies

Episode I: Lifestyles of the Dead and Infamous

Egghead-in-Chief Addresses Reader Concerns

Complete with plainspoken translation for the Salt of the Earth

A National Day of Moaning

by Chip Shoulders

Stand-up for Yorktown, Virginia

Yorktown native to Brits: All is forgiven

The Shade of Maple Trees yet to Come

Backhoe Salesman Goes Green after Seeing Eco-Friendly Ghost

Clone This!

Brutally handsome anti-hero blows the lid off of a government genome conspiracy

The Sin of Presumption

Webmaster Presumes to Lecture us on the Evils of Speculative Certitude

When the Bell Rings, Come Out Writing

The 5th Annual World Wide Word Wrestling competition from the Orlando Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada

Move Over, Stanislavski

The Theory of Orchestrated Distractions: Professor Konstantin von Egghead's new paradigm for thespian pedagogy

Happy Halloween, Son!

Season's Greetings from Baron Von Foghorn Leghorn III

Speaking of Wind

The Legend of Anniversary Mountain

The Tao Te Me

The affecting biography of the American Egghead, told in a series of hermaneutic footnotes on the original text of the Tao Te Ching as translated in 1891 by J. Legge, Scottish missionary and sinologist.

Woe is Me, Too, Gang

Webmaster dons sackcloth with view toward increasing site popularity

Kindness without Caveats

Comedian Pinkie Weazelton stands up for sincerity

Cy Twombly Can Kiss My Canvas!

In fact, EVERYBODY can!

Me Version 10.1.0

Comedian Johnny Appleseed releases a new version of himself to fix several personality bugs, including feelings of academic insecurity when in the company of boastful Ivy Leaguers

My Name is Brian and I Am a Depressed Webmaster

Group Therapy for the Digitally Daunted

Happy Columbus Day at the Comedy Club

check your buckets of red paint at the door

Time Travel 101: The Basics

CLASS 3 of 3: Essential Time Travel Terminology

All-ee All-ee In-come-Bee!

Live from the Honeybee Lounge in I-Miss-Em, Nebraska!

Conjuring Che

Revolutionary's Spirit Renounces Violence in Controversial Seance

Operation: Jersey Sparkler

Protesting New Jersey Fireworks Law, another fine Sunday Sermon by Father Patrick O'Really

James Woods 1, Vampires 0

James Woods settles the supernatural score in Vampires

Where is the Trophy?

Striking similes, Batman, it's a sermon about bowling!

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, Where Has Your Husband Gone?

Dr. Watson and Mary Morstan are 'on the outs' in this new Sherlock Holmes drama

Forgive me, Father, for I have singed

Unexpectedly punny Deity signs off on new chef's apron

Bussing Mr. Daisy

or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Telly

Case of the Missing Egghead

What did the Fetching Chambermaid know and when did she know it

On the Recalcitrance of Biomass

Wedding-related news conference yields questions about the economical production of Ethanol

Topical Cul-de-Sac at the Ricochet Lounge

Comedian temporarily loses moral compass en route to Laughville

Who Do You Think You Were, Anyway?

Stand-up routine on reincarnation, by a comic who was even funnier in his last life

I Spy with my Little Eye...

or, When I First Heard the Amateur Astronomer...

Wind Power Made Easy

Solving the aesthetic and financial problems of wind turbines

Cat-Calls for a Counter-Revolutionary

Sardo Lady to Sick Bay

Damn it, Jim, I'm a doctor not a talent agent!

Meditations on a Gammy Leg

Father O'Really knocks us off of our PC high horses in this tough-love sermon about the evils of self-righteousness

Fast Times at Jurassic High

Stand-up comedian brings us up to speed on the newly discovered running skills of T-Rex

Bricks and Mortar Hangup

Evidence points to modern masonry techniques as source of new noise-related psychosis

The Invasion: Take Two

After the dismal failure of Operation: Seedpod in the mid-'50s, Jack Finney's aliens are back on Earth to try Plan B

Forgiveness for Dummies

Father O'Really Urges Sinners to Bury the Hatchet

Flying in the Face of Reason

Author puts the dubious concept of micro-expressions under his literary magnifying glass as the TSA begins cracking down on negative facial expressions

Chariots of Belated Fire

A long-awaited review of the 1981 movie classic

Looking for Help in All the Wrong Places

Why I'm saying goodbye (and #*@!) to online forums

The New Seaford, Virginia Home Page

A Landlubber's guide to the Childhood Crib of Captain

Got Any Tuna

Go Fish! because we've depleted our oceans, thank you very much!

Ozymandias Dines at Hardees

Push Comes to Shove in Saluda, Virginia, Restaurant

Sermon on the Mound

The moral example of the baseball pitching coach

Elevator Grumps at Ballston Commons

A true story of pettiness and hard feelings in a Northern Virginia shopping mall

Answer Me These Questions Three

When on CNN ye be!

Thar She Blowed!

When Hurricane Isabel Set Sail for Seaford, Virginia

You Better Run! (Talkin Bout a Revolution, yo)

Hey, you with the expensive guitar -- you better run, run, run, 'cause Tracy Chapman is talkin' about a revolution now -- and my sick grandma could use those fancy threads of your'n!

Pardon my French

and go easy on my English, too, while you're at it!

The Bonehead Ultimatum

This Summer Jason Bonehead Comes Home, raids the refrigerator, and leaves again, without consoling his understandably worried family with one word of gratitude or explanation by way of a simple handwritten note deposited conspicuously on the kitchen table, the schmuck!

Chincoteague Hot Shots

Vacationing webmaster snaps sizzling photos at sweltering island resort

Chincoteague Live

At least

Keep Me in Your Prayers!

Join the webmaster as he frets about his upcoming vacation

Love Me, Love My God

All Reverend Finchley is saying is give love a chance, gang

Rap 101 with Professor Hieronymous P. Finch

featuring beard-stroking textual analyses of this week's Top 3 rap songs:

Webmaster On Strike!

And he means it: HUMPH!

Deconstructing the Rapper

Stuffy professor analyzes the bejesus out of 70s hit

The Bear Whisperer

Taming the wild beast (and then getting it to put on a tutu and bring you drinks and stuff)

Stinging Rebuke for Australian Jellyfish

Trial transcript from The People versus Carukia Barnesi

The Trade Show Blues

A Broken Heart (with a Shattered Piggybank) Speaks Out

Unconventional Convention

Eggheads, reserve your spot today!

Wassup, Monkeys Eyebrow?!

Live from the Cactus Club on I-473 in Ballard County, Kentucky....

Fourth of July in Fireworks-Free New Jersey

Webmaster to party hearty in the Garden State

Singin' in the Rain

In which a newly psyched

Company Retort

Don't forget to stay for the lobster dinner after the meeting!

Stand-Up at the Okay Corral

Featuring your favorite rootin- tootin' cyber-cowpoke, Webmaster Q!

Flash Mobs 101 with Professor Q

(Prerequisite: Student should already be reasonably hip)

Privacy in a Technological Age

Webmaster Q and the Private I

Waiter, there's a bon mot in my soup

Not so loud -- everyone will want one!

The Reluctant Millionaire

The taxpaying adventures of Webmaster Q

Spam I Am: Episode 9

Yong Woo Wants You -- or, Impersonating British Relatives for Fun and Profit

Piglet's Big Movie

Sing Ho, for the Life of a Niece

Spam I Am: Episode 8

Einen Kleinen Junkmail

Inspector Clouseau Does Safeway

When out in the car park there arose such a clatter, I didn't dare ask myself what was the matter

What a Good Boy Am I!

Little Jack Horner

Sweet and Sour Republicans at the Peking Gourmet Inn

Webmaster tries the Bipartisan Pork with Plum Sauce

Spam I Am: Episode 7

Love in a Time of Junkmail

Death by VHS Naomi Watts in The Ring

I'm too young to die in seven days!!!

Quiz Me, Kate

How much do you know about the month of April? Take our test to find out!

Yankee Doodle III Does Albert Hall

Yankee Doodle went to London just to tell some groaners

The Eyes Have It

The preacher has cleverly hidden some important ideas about animals and love in today's message

Our Blue Friend

Out-of-this-world lecture on planet Neptune

Shout!

Comedian's Google Rant is a (Primal) Scream!

Psycho Comic

Stand-up comic takes a stab at stand-up comedy

Time Travel 101: It's About Time!

CLASS 2 of 3: One of Professor Chumley's students finally manages to go back in time!

On the Right to Bear Sparklers

on the God-given (or at least Jeffersonian-given) right to bear sparklers! (yes, even in the Big Mother state of New Jersey!)

Arresting Anachronisms

How Lord Brianberry Came THIS CLOSE to being arrested, with ancillary reflections on the apparently timeless problem of sexism among the nobility

Brain to Brain Resuscitation

Shut Thou Thy Trap

A sermon on the moral shortcomings of children

Postdated Postcard

from Smith Mountain Lake

1106

The true story behind 1408 by Stephen King

Heading for the Dysentery Archipelago

Aboard the SS UpChuck piloted by Captain Sal Manilla (got it? if not, you will before we return to port!)

We Called Her Mother Mac

Egghead webmaster finally levels with us about his true actual real life! (...or does he, now??? Hmm....)

On Prayer and Privacy

together with some

Hips Don't Lie!

with Professor Emeritus Rupert Von Rappenheimer III, alias

What God Expects of YOU!

Transcript of Angel Gabriel's 2007 Seminar at the Holiday Inn Newark Airport

Federal Trade Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Lord, Smite Thou Mine Enemies who Practice Indiscriminate Reciprocal Linking

Online publisher lifts his Google-related concerns to God (in person, no less!)

Guns! Get Your Guns Here!

Virginia Citizens Defense League to Hold Gun Raffle in Government Building

Standup for Saturn's Hexagon

Out-of-this-world wiseacre runs rings around the comic competition

Scaring the Hammerheads

another horrifying (or at any rate vaguely disconcerting) campfire story

Slanted Screen, Indeed

O-T-T negativism in 21st-century documentaries

Philosophical Fill-up!

Philosophy at the pump -- It's a real gas!

Lip Gloss: A Derridean ontology of Lil' Mama's boo-yaa lyrics

Welcome to Rap, Rock, and Redaction with Professor Huffenstuff -- er, HuffenSTADT

Call of the Wild Crumhorn

Organist (William Von Pushenfinger III) pulls out all the stops to wake up a nodding congregation

Church Lite with Father O'Really

This church will now come to order!

Merry Kissmas 2006

Stand-up Christmas Routine with everyone's favorite online comic, Smincey Aloysius Fensterbaron III

No, seriously! Seriously!

Hauntified Hazmat Team, Batman, it's a standup comedy routine about the movie Session 9 starring David Caruso

Time Travel 101

CLASS 1 of 3: Students will learn the basics of time travel and construct their own actual Time Machine during the semester. Prerequisites: thorough knowledge of string theory, black holes, and quantum physics, along with a demonstrated facility in the tasteful appointment of one or more of the following crafts: boats, ships, planes, or cars (to ensure that one's time travel ship does not unwittingly speak volumes about the aesthetic cluelessness of its geeky human cargo).

Putting on the Dog at the Beagle Fashion Show

Top Dog Riley Beagle trots out his new line of canine clothing from Paris!

House of Usher II

The House of Usher for Blithering Idiots

Counseling for Deluded Webmasters

with Dr. Horatio P. Weisenhammer III

Why-We-See-Red

and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue....)

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